Young Children

When crafting with young children, don’t worry about perfection. All that matters is they have fun and are happy with the result.

Individuals under 20 are naturally more flexible, have higher metabolic rates and more energy than those older. But they, too, need to exercise (in appropriate ways) to avoid injury and build strength and endurance, avoid obesity and stay fit.

Particularly today, when there are so many electronic alternatives, young people may exercise less than they should. It's during the formative years that individuals lay the groundwork for what later become healthy or poor habits.

Now is the perfect time to teach your children the value of physical activity, to help them grow healthy and prepare them for the years to coma/

Children should be encouraged to enjoy regular physical activity, at least one hour every day. All types of physical activity will help to maintain a healthy body weight, promote well being and encourage activity in latter life.

Children should engage in certain types of aerobic exercise - dancing, walking or tennis - at least twice a week, to help build strong bones.

Preschoolers will go through so many changes as they grow. It’s no wonder there may be behavioral problems from time to time. If the problems occur too often, you can use these tips for dealing with behavior issues at preschool to help them increase their social skills.

Specialist UK advice points away from waiting for signs of readiness and away from reward charts, and towards the thing most accounts leave out altogether: constipation, which affects one child in three and stops the whole process until it is treated.

Falls are the commonest accident in childhood, and the hardest judgement is the one made late at night over a child who banged their head and seems more or less fine. The thresholds that decide it, and the handful of permanent changes that prevent the falls that matter.

Suspected poisoning is one of the commonest reasons a small child reaches A&E, and medicines cause more of it than cleaning products. What to do and in what order, the inherited advice that makes it worse, when it is 999 rather than 111, and the storage that prevents it.

Almost half of all serious burns happen to children under two, and about half of them in the kitchen. The first aid that changes the outcome, the remedies that make it worse, when it needs a hospital, and the permanent changes that keep working on the day attention runs out.

Tantrums are a loss of control rather than a negotiating tactic, which is why reasoning fails mid-episode and why the answer should not move under pressure.

Gagging is loud and normal; choking is silent. What to do for a baby under one and for a child over one, how to prepare food to reduce the risk, the non-food hazards, and why a swallowed button battery is a different emergency.